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Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was awarded the Hashimoto Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation in Electrical Engineering at NJIT. She is the recipient of 2006 and 2007 Hashimoto Fellowships for outstanding scholarship and also received the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Graduate Student Award for her inventions in network switches. She is the 2015 recipient of the Presidential Engagement Award in Student Engagement in Research and Scholarship at New York Tech, the 2020 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, and Innovate Long Island’s fifth annual Innovator of the Year Award.

Her research interests include the architecture, design, and analysis of high-performance packet switches; data center network, network security, and forensics; wireless sensor networks; assistive medical devices; and data analytics and innovative sensing technology to improve sustainability and resilience of both natural and built environments. She has held consultant positions at industry leaders such as AT&T and BOC Gases. She holds six patents and four invention disclosures. Additionally, she has 34 refereed journal publications, 58 refereed conference publications, three book chapters, and numerous poster presentations with her students. She engages students on both undergraduate and graduate levels in her research projects and publishes with them.

Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Motorola, National Collegiate Alliance for Inventors and Innovators, Xilinx, and New York Tech. She was the principal investigator for the New York Tech Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site, funded by the NSF, to engage undergraduates in mobile device and network security research. She also was the founding director of New York Tech’s Undergraduate Research and Entrepreneurship Program (UREP) and faculty mentor for the Society of Women Engineers New York Tech student chapter. She is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Women in Engineering, and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), ACM, and the Environmental Sensing, Networking, and Decision-Making (ESND) technical committee. She has served on technical program committees of IEEE HPSR, GLOBECOM, ICC, Sarnoff, GreenCom, and ChinaCom, and as a reviewer for IEEE journals, conferences, and NSF panels.